splitterism

English

Etymology

splitter +‎ -ism

Noun

splitterism (uncountable)

1. The ideology of a splitter (one who prefers to split categories into smaller groups).
   • 1986, Valeriĭ Pavlovich Alekseev, The origin of the human race, page 101:

     Lumperism is very common in palaeontology of late, representing a legitimate reaction to the preceding splitterism.

   • 1997, André Liebich, From the Other Shore: Russian Social Democracy After 1921, page 29:

     Curiously, the descriptions sometimes coincide: Bolsheviks and Mensheviks accuse each other of "splitterism," factionalism, opportunism, of being intelligentsia- rather than worker-oriented (whether in outlook or social composition), of pandering to the undeveloped class instincts of the masses.